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Rivaling the pyramids of Egypt or even the ancient cities of [#permalink]
 06 Sep 2004, 13:15
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Rivaling the pyramids of Egypt or even the ancient cities of the Maya as an achievement, the army of terra-cotta warriors created to protect Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor, in his afterlife is more than 2000 years old and took 700,000 artisans more than 36yrs to comeplete them
a. same
b. took 700,000 artisans more than 36 yrs to complete it
c. took 700,000 artisans more than 36 yrs to complete
d. 700,000 artisans took more than 36 yrs to complte
e. to complete them too 700,000 ..bla bla bs
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B is the best answer. You can remove all the extraneous information and summarize the correction sentence to:
"The army of terra-cotta warriors took 700K partisans more than 36 years to complete it."
The other option might have been the one which leaves it out. However, compare the following:
(1) The city bridge took 5 years to complete.
(2) The city bridge took the municipal employees 5 years to complete it.
Our situation falls into category (2).
In colloquial terms, it may be okay to omit the it at the end, but, in formal/written language, you'd almost always have to keep it. Since you've introduced a new subject (partisans) in the sentence, a transitive verb for this subject (complete) should be rounded off with a proper object (it).
BTW, I'm assuming that the "army of terra-cota warriors" is a structure.
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oa is B.. good job on the explanation
thanks!
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I agree that B is the answer.
I would use "it" too based on that it took 700 artisans to complet it.
Regards,
Alex
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